Broken

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER IS NOT YET COMPLETED!

Chrysalis sighed as she stood on her hind hooves and braced herself against the wall to peer out the barred window.

She had fed on the ruler of a nation, an honor itself supposedly, and then fed her darling children.

Did Celestia truly trust her?  If so, then why keep her magic locked down with that painful ring?

Oh, of course. She thought grimly.  Because she *doesn't** trust me.*

Just then, a door slammed open from above and furious hoofsteps sounded from the stairway.

"Guards, remove her from the window!" a voice barked, quivering in poorly contained rage.

And here we go again...

Chrysalis suddenly found herself grabbed by a pair of hooves on each shoulder and pulled back violently with nothing to catch her as she slammed against the floor.

"Good to see you too, Shiny." Chrysalis taunted softly with a smile, imitating Cadance's voice and earning her a white hoof to her nose.

"Do not speak unless spoken to!" Shining Armor shouted.  "And do NOT call me 'Shiny!"

Giving a sigh and wrinkling her nose, Chrysalis simply laid there on her back as Shining Armor screamed obscenities and threats at her, adding an occasional punch or two now and again.

By the time he had finished, left, and had the guards sworn to secrecy, Chrysalis was a heaving pile of flesh; coughing up green goo that the guards could only imagine substituted for blood in the Changeling body.

But they made no attempt to help her.

They held no sympathy for the creature who attacked them all.

THESE are the ponies Celestia is trying to convince me not to 'target'?

The Changeling Queen began laughing to herself.

~=(♥)=~

Twilight Sparkle came in much later after her brother and the Guard had changed.

The only reason Chrysalis hadn't fully healed like she normally would have was because she was cut off from feeding and cut of from the Hive.

She would have to endure the hardships that normal ponies faced when they had broken a bone or something of the like.  At least, until Princess Celestia managed to move her lazy flank down here and get her a doctor.

"Are you awake?"

"No, Sparkle, I hate you so much that I've learned to glare at you even in my sleep." Chrysalis replied with a roll of her eyes.

Twilight only offered a slight grin in return before the guards let her into the cell.

"How are you feeling today?"

"Like I hate absolutely everything in this world.  That's normal, right?  I'm pretty sure that's normal."

"I meant after...You know."

How does SHE know?!  Ah, of course, big brother shares all his dirty little secrets... Chrysalis thought darkly, which only increased her hate for the purple unicorn before her and the rest of the entire pony nation.

Chrysalis held her glare at the curious unicorn, but Twilight seemed unaffected.

"I'm sorry for what happened, but you'll be...Happy to know that he's being reprimanded for what he did.  In fact..." Twilight said sadly.  "He might even be kicked out of the Guard..."

"It would do all of Equestria a favor to have that fool out from a position of power."

"Hey, that's my brother you're talking about!  And you have to understand what he did, he did only because you threatened him, his wife, and all of Equestria!" Twilight shouted in defense.

"And you have to understand that I only did what I had to to keep my race from dying out completely!  Have you ever wondered why you're just now hearing about Changelings?  Why none of your precious little books held any information on us?  Because," Chrysalis snapped.  "Your little Moon Princess wiped nearly all of us out during her reign as Nightmare Moon!"

Twilight Sparkle's snout hung agape as she processed what she had just been told, and Chrysalis growled.

"Get out of my cell and leave me alone.  I want to die with what little dignity I have left, at least."

The pair simply stood silent in the cold, dark cell for a while before Twilight shook her head as if awakening.

"I don't believe it!  Why should I believe you?" Twilight shouted in return.  " Princess Celestia would have known, or at least Princess Luna would have remembered!"